Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984, and the
sequel, Nerds in Paradise, in 1987. There were two more
sequels released in 1992 and 1994. The original movie
starred, as the nerds, Robert Carradine as Lewis
Skolnick, Anthony Edwards as Gilbert Lowe, Timothy
Busfield as Arnold Poindexter, Andrew Cassesse as Harold
Wormser, Curtis Armstrong as Booger Dawson, Brian Tochi
as Takashi Toshiro, and Larry B. Scott as Lamar Latrelle.
Although the original movie met with mixed reviews, it
was a huge success at the box office.

In a
world where jocks rule and the girls play hard to get, a
group of nerds try to make their way as freshmen at
Adams University. The problems begin with the Alpha
Betas fraternity burns down their house and takes over
the freshmen dorm. The displaced freshmen are allowed
to join other fraternities, or find other housing, and
friends Lewis (Carradine) and Gilbert (Edwards), along
with outer Computer Science nerds, begin renovating an
old house to serve as their fraternity. The “jock”
fraternities continue harassing the nerds, who are
unable to get relief from the Greek Council due to the
fact that they themselves are not part of any
fraternity. Eventually, the nerds are able to join a
black fraternity, called Lambda Lambda Lambda
(Tri-Lambs), on a probationary level. Eventually the
nerds pull enough pranks against their enemies to
warrant full membership into the Tri-Lambs, but the
harassment didn’t stop.

Knowing their only solace would be in gaining a
controlling interest in the Greek Council, the nerds go
about the business of defeating the other fraternities
during the Homecoming Greek Games and taking control of
the council. The Alpha Betas become so angry, that they
vandalize the Tri-Lambs house in a significant way. In
the end, the school forces the Alpha Betas to live in
the vandalized home until it is fixed, while the nerds
move into the Alpha Betas fraternity house.